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Apparently nvtv does not work with the nvidia drivers after 1.0.7174. |
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See 'man portage' and look for package.mask to see how to limit versions. |
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Drew |
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On 9/14/2005 6:59 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: |
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> On 9/13/2005 2:30 PM Nick Rout wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 07:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: |
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>>> I'm running a 2.6.11-r6 kernel on a box whose main purpose is |
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>>> MythTV. Everything was working fine until I did an upgrade using |
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>>> 'emerge -uvD world' followed with 'revdep-rebuild'. Now nvtv seg |
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>>> faults when I first attempt to run it. Additional attempts result |
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>>> in this error message: |
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>>> Fatal: Cannot access video cards. Either you are not root, or the |
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>>> NVidia devices are not accessible. |
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>>> I get the same message when attempting to run as root. |
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>>> I've tried removing and reinstalling both nvtv and nvidia-kernel |
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>>> but no joy. I'm new to Gentoo and Linux but do have a bit of a *nix |
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>>> background with FreeBSD. Any suggestions on how to resolve this |
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>>> would be greatly appreciated. |
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>> Drew I ahve seen a few messages here from you about mythtv related |
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>> stuff. Although I have no problem at all with you posting here, you may |
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>> get better results on the mythtv-user list. You can sub from a link on |
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>> www.mythtv.org |
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> Thanks for the tip. I do post there when my issue is directly related |
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> to MythTV. I just felt this was more of a Gentoo thing as my issues |
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> started after a "emerge -uvD world". |
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>> It is a busy list, quite knowledgeable. |
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>> As for nvtv, are you actually using the nvidia driver? - do you get the |
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>> nvidia splash screen when you start X? |
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> Yes, I am using the latest (I have ~x86 set) nvidia-kernel driver from |
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> portage as I was before upgrading. I've read that many times the |
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> nvidia-kernel driver has to be recompiled after an upgrade. I think |
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> it's just when upgrading the actual kernel but I recompiled anyway |
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> just to check. It didn't help. I also recompiled nvtv from portage |
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> but no help there either. |
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> I also have TightVNC installed on this box and normally start a |
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> session on :1. In checking this further, it is interesting that nvtv |
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> starts fine when using :1 via the TightVNC viewer if X is not running |
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> on :0. However once X is on :0, that's when the seg faults start. |
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> Maybe I have a problem with my X config. BTW, I'm using xorg. |
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> Oh, and yes, I do see the nvidia splash screen when starting X on :0. |
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> Thanks for your help! Although I come from the FreeBSD world, I'm a |
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> noob when it comes to both Linux and Gentoo (and MythTV for that matter). |
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> Drew |
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